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Full Readwise

$9.99 per month,billed yearly

Reader and Highlights together. Read more, remember more.

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Everything in Reader. Save and read unlimited articles, PDFs, EPUBs, emails, YouTube videos, RSS, and X threads.
Highlight and search everything you read, with text-to-speech and Ghostreader.
Everything in Highlights. Import from Kindle, Apple, Kobo, and 40+ sources.
Build a daily habit with Daily Review. Search, organize, and export your highlights.

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Highlights only

Remember more from your Kindle and other highlights.
Not included: Access to Reader.

$7.99/mo

billed yearly

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Daily Review (email & app)
Import highlights from external sources like Kindle, Apple, Kobo, and 40+ more
Export your highlights to Notion, Obsidian, and more
Easily browse & search your entire highlight library
Chat with your entire highlight library using Ghostreader AI
Sync new highlights from all sources
Organize your highlights with tags & notes
OCR to capture physical books
Mastery flashcards
Review tuning
Supplemental Books
Give your AI agent full access to your highlights with our CLI, MCP server, API, and ChatGPT Connector.

Highlights Lite only

Remember more from your Kindle and other highlights.
Not included: Tags & notes, exports, and all of Reader.

$5.59/mo

billed yearly

Get started for free

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Daily Review (email & app)
Easily browse & search your entire highlight library
Sync new highlights from all sources
Not included: Organize your highlights with tags & notes
Not included: Export your highlights to Notion, Obsidian, and more
Not included: Readwise reading app (Reader)
Not included: Early access to new features & lock in your price for life

Reader only

A home for everything you want to read.
Not included: Access to Highlights.

$7.99/mo

billed yearly

Get started for free

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Read-it-later
Powerful highlighting
Web highlighting
PDFs & EPUBs
RSS & newsletters
YouTube & Twitter threads
Keyboard-based reading
Summarize, explain, and translate any document with Ghostreader AI
Blazingly fast full text search
Text to speech
Give your AI agent full access to your library with our CLI, MCP server, API, and ChatGPT Connector.

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What our users say

jihad

@jaesmail

“Scan your paper book annotations” say less, absolute game changer

1:45 PM · Jul 22, 2026

33 Likes3 Retweets

Josh Daws

@joshdaws

I’ve been reading most books on Kindle for 15 years. Now my digital assistant has access to all 11,328 highlights across 15 years and hundreds of books. This is what I mean when I talk about giving AI the right tools. "Give me everything I’ve highlighted about the church growth movement from David Wells."

10:38 AM · Mar 19, 2026

80 Likes12 Retweets

Steven Johnson

@stevenbjohnson

This is great. NotebookLM + @readwise is the ultimate second brain platform.

10:58 AM · Oct 22, 2024

148 Likes26 Retweets

Ali Abdaal

@AliAbdaal

My favourite readwise highlight this year was:

“Your story must reflect change over time. A story cannot simply be a series of remarkable events. You must start out as one version of yourself and end as something new.”

- Storyworthy, from Matthew Dicks

12:20 PM · Dec 29, 2022

627 Likes90 Retweets

Tiago Forte

@fortelabs

If you could integrate these 3 existing tools, you’d have a fully functional second brain with 90% less work:

1. Readwise to save excerpts/notes on content that resonates with you

2. ChatGPT trained on those excerpts as a retrieval method

3. Lex as a personalized writing tool

7:20 PM · Jan 14, 2023

171 Likes10 Retweets

hilary gridley

@yourgirlhils

some real bangers in my @readwise roundup this morning. I love this product

9:17 AM · Jun 11, 2025

12 Likes1 Retweets

Antonio García Martínez (agm.eth)

@antoniogm

.@readwise -> @obsdmd -> @claudeai is the play

11:56 AM · Apr 12, 2026

340 Likes13 Retweets

Eric Jorgenson 📚 ☀️

@EricJorgenson

"The quest for good explanations is, I believe, the basic regulating principle not only of science, but of the Enlightenment generally." via @readwise

A Readwise highlight from The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch

2:13 PM · Nov 25, 2025

127 Likes12 Retweets

John Carmack

@ID_AA_Carmack

I use Readwise to review my kindle highlights. They are almost all technical, but I highlight a few fiction passages that make me smile.

A Readwise highlight from Artemis by Andy Weir

12:16 PM · Dec 30, 2025

269 Likes3 Retweets

ludwig

@ludwigABAP

in case you don’t know, I am still syncing all my bookmarks (through readwise) and papers (through zotero) and maintaining a tag tree of it over on my personal website

2:27 PM · Dec 13, 2025

502 Likes11 Retweets

Gabriel Packer

@gkpacker

Years ago, I started using @obsdmd as my second brain:

Each little dot is a note or article/book that I read digitally, and the highlights were imported automatically via @readwise

8:58 PM · Dec 3, 2025

292 Likes10 Retweets

Kieran Drew

@ItsKieranDrew

One reason I love reading with Kindle is the Readwise app.

Sends me 10 of my highlights every day.

When I want to scroll social media, I read those instead.

3:27 AM · Sep 8, 2026

57 Likes1 Retweets

Gaurav Vohra

@gauravvohra

I wish I could go back in time and highlight all the things I read prior to 2019 for @readwise

Compound returns are wild

2:08 AM · Mar 10, 2020

45 Likes5 Retweets

Felix GG

@felixggj

Buy a Kindle.

Use Readwise to get a daily email of 10 highlights you made from all the books you’ve read.

Read it every morning (first thing I do when I wake up)

Never forget what you’ve read.

10:58 AM · Aug 27, 2025

6 Likes0 Retweets

Common Questions

What's the difference between the Readwise Reader and Highlights products?

Reader lets you save everything to one place and replace several apps. Highlights makes it easy to revisit and learn from your ebook & article highlights.

Reader: All your reading in one place. No more juggling dozens of reading apps. Just one: we call it Reader. Save and read unlimited articles, PDFs, EPUBs, emails, YouTube videos, RSS, and X threads. Highlight and search everything you read, with text-to-speech and Ghostreader.

Highlights: Remember what you read. Sync your highlights from Kindle, Instapaper, Apple Books and more. Reading something once isn't enough to remember it. Readwise uses Spaced Repetition to resurface your best highlights at the right times. Search to find any highlight instantly. Tag it, add your own notes, and connect ideas across everything you've read.

Highlights Lite: Remember more from your Kindle and other highlights. Not included: Tags & notes, exports, and all of Reader.

Can I use Readwise for free?

Readwise is free for first 30 days. After the free trial, Readwise costs a small monthly fee.

Why should I pay for Readwise?

The same reason you pay for your books: to learn and grow wiser.

The true cost of a book is not the sale price, but the hours you invest into reading it. Why invest all of that time if you aren’t going to use or remember anything from it?

Readwise costs much less than a single book per month, but lets you get much more out of your time spent reading.

Why isn't Readwise free forever?

In order for us to be able to build Readwise sustainably, we need to charge a small monthly fee. Not only does this align our incentives with yours (we never sell your data or advertise to you), it ensures that Readwise won't go anywhere. You can read more about how and why we made this decision in this blog post we wrote.

What happens to my data if I change plans?

Nothing is deleted. Your documents, highlights and notes stay in your account, and your API tokens and connected apps keep working with the apps your plan includes.

Can I cancel Readwise?

Absolutely. You can cancel any time at your Account Preferences.

We're building Readwise to improve the way people read, not squeeze every last cent out of our users. Because of this, we're happy to give you your money back if it means we can learn how to do better.

Is there a discount for students?

Yes! We offer a 50% discount to students and other members of academia. Just sign up, shoot us a quick email at hello@readwise.io letting us know you're a student before subscribing, and we'll apply the 50% discount to your account. When you do subscribe after receiving the discount, make sure to do it via the Readwise website!

Have any more questions?

Email us, we'd love to chat!